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Featherstone Priordale Road water level

River gauge, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Water level

0.21m Steady over the last 24 hours

0.0 0.5

History

History
0.220.240.260.28mOct 13Oct 15Oct 16Oct 18Oct 200.220.240.260.28mOct 13Oct 16Oct 20
0.230.250.28mSep 20Sep 27Oct 5Oct 12Oct 200.230.250.28mSep 20Oct 5Oct 20
Water level

What this means

Featherstone Priordale Road reads 0.21 m as of 20 Oct 2026, 09:30 BST. There is no published reference for this river yet, so we can't say whether that is high or low for the season.

It has barely moved over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 0.21 m and 0.28 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to 0.00 m.

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only. How to read levels

Key numbers

Lowest and highest in 30 days
0.21 m – 0.28 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months
0.21 m – 0.22 m

Fishing and paddling

Watch the direction of travel. A rising river after rain behaves very differently from one that is dropping and clearing.

Flood alerts and warnings come from the Environment Agency.

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 7.2 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

20 Tue 12° 10° 3.9 mm, 100% Wind 15 km/h
21 Wed 11° 8° 15 mm, 63% Wind 29 km/h
22 Thu 11° 5° 0.1 mm, 42% Wind 15 km/h
23 Fri 13° 8° 15 mm, 80% Wind 25 km/h
24 Sat 11° 8° 1.9 mm, 79% Wind 24 km/h
25 Sun 15° 9° 1.4 mm, 77% Wind 28 km/h
26 Mon 17° 8° 4.5 mm, 44% Wind 21 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:42 AM Sunset 06:00 PM Daylight 10 hr, 18 min First quarter 67%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge Level Compared with normal 24 hours Distance
Pontefract Wash DikeRiver gauge, Wash Dike 0.15 m Normal −0.09 m 5.7 km
MethleyRiver gauge, River Calder 1.23 m Normal −0.03 m 5.9 km
CastlefordRiver gauge, River Aire 1.20 m Normal −0.01 m 6.4 km
Wakefield OakenshawRiver gauge, Oakenshaw Beck 0.03 m Normal ±0 6.9 km
Allerton IngsRiver gauge, Aire Washlands 0.03 m Normal ±0 7.4 km
Went BridgeRiver gauge, River Went 0.62 m Very high +0.12 m 7.4 km
BirkwoodRiver gauge, River Calder 0.79 m Normal +0.02 m 7.5 km
Mickletown IngsRiver gauge, Aire Washlands 0.34 m Normal −0.09 m 7.5 km

Questions and answers

Is the river level the same as the depth of the water?

No. The reading is measured from a fixed zero mark at the gauge, so 0.21 m on the gauge does not mean the water is that deep.

What is the water level of Featherstone Priordale Road today?

On 20 Oct 2026, 09:30 BST, the water level was 0.21 m. Steady over the last 24 hours.

Is Featherstone Priordale Road rising or falling?

Steady over the last 24 hours. Steady over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Featherstone Priordale Road normal?

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only.

How often is this data updated?

The Environment Agency publishes a new reading every 15 minutes. This page refreshes within minutes of each update.

Where does this data come from?

The values come directly from the Environment Agency, the official operator of this gauge, and are published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We do not estimate or model live values.

For specialists

Station codes, datum, parameters, data quality and downloads
Operator
Environment Agency
Station code
ea:L0927
Coordinates
53.67382, -1.36857 (WGS84)
Vertical datum
station datum
Update interval
every 15 minutes
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Environment Agency data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Published series

ParameterLast valueTime (UTC)Quality
Water level 0.21 m 2026-10-20 08:30 Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Featherstone Priordale Road (ea:L0927). Accessed October 20, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/west-yorkshire/featherstone-priordale-road

How we check values

Each reading is stored as published. We hold back values that jump faster than physically plausible and show the measurement time with every value.